YouTube will evaluate each request individually, but copyright violators need not apply. A few weeks ago, Google told US Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) that it would allow creators banned for COVID and election misinformation to rejoin the platform. It didn’t offer many details in the letter, but now YouTube…
Texas requires sensitive info just to check weather and sports scores, Apple says. Apple yesterday announced a plan to comply with a Texas age verification law and warned that changes required by the law will reduce privacy for app users. “Beginning January 1, 2026, a new state law in…
FSD has been crossing into oncoming traffic and ignoring red lights. Last week was a good one for Tesla, as it beat analysts’ estimates for the number of cars it could sell in the third quarter of the year. This week is probably a less good week for Tesla,…
As more sites require IDs for user age verification, expect more such breaches to come. Discord says that hackers made off with images of 70,000 users’ government IDs that they were required to provide in order to use the site. Like an increasing number of sites, Discord requires certain…
The Rubik’s WOWCube is a 2×2 cube with modern twists. The Rubik’s Cube has been reinvented with more games and many more screens for much more money. What has long been cherished as a simple toy yet complex puzzle requiring nothing but a healthy amount of twisting, turning, and…
“You don’t have to claim that they’re aliens to make these exciting.” A few days ago, an inscrutable interstellar interloper made its closest approach to Mars, where a fleet of international spacecraft seek to unravel the red planet’s ancient mysteries. Several of the probes encircling Mars took a break…
Workers with ropes could make the moai “walk” in zig-zag motion along roads tailor-made for the purpose. Easter Island is famous for its giant monumental statues, called moai, built some 800 years ago and typically mounted on platforms called ahu. Scholars have puzzled over the moai on Easter Island…
Dozens of new models are in the pipeline. The end of US tax credits for buying electric vehicles has changed the market in ways that are still unfolding. I spoke this week with people closely monitoring the auto industry to get a sense of what’s next. They said the…
New laptop CPUs replace confusing bifurcated Lunar Lake and Arrow Lake lineups. They say there’s no such thing as bad publicity, but the press that Intel has generated in the last year has certainly been testing the boundaries of the aphorism. Is it good when your company posts an…
Four motors, 800 V, more than 1,000 horsepower, and it’s all made in-house. Ferrari provided flights from Washington to Bologna and accommodation so Ars could visit its factory. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. MARANELLO, ITALY—The E-Building is one of the newest on Ferrari’s sprawling factory complex. One…
